Report looks at exceptions in Louisiana college admissions

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's top higher education policy board found that college freshmen admitted without meeting its minimum standards had lower grades and were less likely to graduate than those who reached the admissions criteria.

The Advocate reports the Board of Regents survey tracked students admitted to public colleges in fall 2016 and fall 2017, finding that 2,315 freshmen failed to meet one of the board's minimum admissions standards when entering school.

The report says grade point averages for those students averaged 2.0, while the 41,500 students who met minimum standards ended the first term with an average 2.7 GPA.